Donald has claimed that using the Condorcet criterion is inherently prejudicial, since only methods in the Condorcet family can comply.
However, there's also a concept called "Condorcet Efficiency": Quantify the likelihood that a given non-Condorcet method will elect the Condorcet winner. We can debate the best way to measure this (Monte-Carlo seems reasonable off the top of my head), but it is used in the literature. Brams and Fishburn, two men who are most definitely NOT Condorcet partisans (why else would Brams devote a considerable portion of his academic work to studying, promoting, and defending Approval Voting?) use this concept in their book. I'm curious if any work has been done comparing the Condorcet efficiencies of Approval and IRV. It's been a few months since I looked at Brams and Fishburn, and I don't have a copy handy, so I don't know if they compared the two. When my copy arrives (ordered it used) I'll check it out. Alex ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
